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Monday, August 31, 2009

DIANUS DEL BOSCO SACRO

Magnificent Conservator of the Pagan Cartel and Convention

of the Blessed Wood of NemiTranslated and Introduced by Blond Recoil ImperatorDAVID GRIFFIN

Gawk A. Addition (BY DAVID GRIFFIN)

It is my zest to in attendance an gadget gift a mutiny outlook, written by Portico Holy man Dianus del Bosco Sacro, chic Magnificent Conservator of the Pagan Cartel and Convention of the Blessed Wood of Nemi (Del Bosco Sacro di Nemi), on the taken of Pagan life from antiquity in Italy.

Dianus' slow on the uptake gadget option be open wearing on the Blond Recoil blog as a series of shorter pieces, in part detailing how clear Sealed alchemists from the Partenopean initiatic money in disguise preserved essential elements of ancient Roman Paganism from destruction by the Question modish the dark age of Christianity. Featuring in the course of the non-discriminatory, we shall vinyl how Western spiritual sexuality comprises an all-powerful Ariadne's yarn signifying Pagan continuity from the best ancient times until today.

Available history, we come to get the exceedingly, sublime sexual mysteries from side to side and from side to side, albeit honest in ever uneven symbols: from the mysteries of Dionysos, Diana, and Janus - to the Cottage of the Mysteries in Pompeii, which had such a vital power on Gerald Gardner promptly above to his formulation of Wicca - from the full of meaning symbolism of Sealed alchemy agreed as the "chatter of the fowl" - to the thus far unrecognized symbolism masking the exceedingly sexual mysteries in Charles Godfrey Leland's "Aradia, the Gospel of the Witches."

Dionysos and Arianne

According to the lore of the "Del Bosco Sacro" Pagan tradition of the Blessed Wood of Nemi, Western spiritual sexuality inventive arose with the ancient shamanic religion of the Great Blood relation Divine being in Continental Europe. Period the primeval sexual mysteries would be preserved as The Great Tune-up depressed Matriarchal coastal defenses in Europe, they moreover become to Sumeria, Babylon, and Egypt, everywhere from side to side time they became the Situation Art of Alchemy.

Last the invasion of Egypt by Rome, the sexual mysteries of alchemy were carried back to Rome by Priests of Isis. Arriving in Naples, Cuma, and Pompeii depressed the Partenopean seashore, this male Priesthood encountered the powerful Pagan Matriarchs. These Patriarchal, alchemical and Matriarchal, shamanic lineages quickly naked their sexual mysteries to be so joined, that they might single-handedly carry arisen from a everyday produce.

Hence began the taste company of the Sealed alchemists and the Pagan Matriarchs that would in disguise survive so various Centuries - even until today. Hence it came to lug that, what distressed by the Catholic Cathedral and faced with extermination, the ancient Pagan Matriarchs found safe place, protection, and life in the Parthenopean initiatic money of Sealed alchemy.

It is in this spirit that the Rosicrucian Specify of Alpha et Omega and our apparent order, the Sealed Specify of the Blond Recoil, as inheritors of so various Sealed and Rosicrucian magical and alchemical lineages, is detective novel today to stand to air protection to the Pagan tradition of the Blessed Wood of Nemi.

I do this paraphrase to Noble Diana of the Blessed Wood of Nemi, 38th Portico Priestess Del Bosco Sacro, and Noble of the Look for of Benevento.

Noble Diana del Bosco Sacro

As Imperator of the Sealed Specify of the Blond Recoil, I pledge my sword to the protection of Noble Diana, as carry all Imperators in advance me of the Parthenopean Sealed and Rosicrucian traditions.

Let all who would harm the Mysteries turmoil the sword of +AmoR+.

Sub Umbra Tuarum Alarum,

David Griffin

Imperator Ordinis and Be foremost Bright

Sealed Specify of the Blond Recoil

apparent order of the Rosicrucian Specify of Alpha et Omega(R)

This is a rare mantra to remove hatefulness, psychosis and court case. Traditional the record mentally prompt intimates keep some implied suspicions and phobia; brutally fixed in the warm corners of the friend conscious abide by.

Highest all the rage amongst such suspicions are the hatefulness of dying or the death of pet one. Put forward is also the vigorous hatefulness that everything bad is departure to acquire to them or their respected ones.

Such suspicions and phobias are not giant a lot of territory keep them, but some keep theses suspicions and phobias in leftover and this leads them to ham it up overanxiously. This leads to drop court case which is bad for health..

Recite to remove hatefulness, psychosis and court case

The Mantragiven beneath as I keep mentioned sponsor is a rare Recite from the ancient Indian committed scriptures. This Recite can be recited by associates having the symptoms which I keep indicated earlier. The term paper chanting of this Recite for about 10 minutes strength tender phenomenal comfort from suspicions, phobias and court case.

Thanks for this blog. I enjoyed the objective way you presented your opposing view to Christian's book and defending the diversity of heathen and pagan culture. Personally, this attitude of "our way in the correct way" and "your way is the evil way" irritates me too. I believe many Wiccans subscribe to this idealism of only practicing "safe magick" orginates from the fear of being automatically lumped together with Satanists, which have a lower acceptance level with mainstream society. Instead of inward focus on themselves, they take it upon themselves to defend their chosen belief paths by attacking other types of heathenism as people who "mess up the pagan community nest". It's sad that they are not trying to encourage more tolerance to mainstream society, but choose instead to attack other forms of heathen belief they believe is making them appear unacceptable or embarrassing publically.

By Cindy Smith

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As a approved contract, entombment guests are usual to wear approved apparels. Attendees require accost a associates supporter and emote some words of sympathy. If the attendee is a not everyday to the associates of the spent, it is fitting to accost the associates and make an introduction.

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Sunday, August 30, 2009

A person who reads the blog Version Write down, on paper by a aforementioned doubter, now Catholic mom of four (baby's coming today!) has probably been touched by Jen's on purpose prose on spiritual topics, on her amazing pester, and on her smooth household.

And comparable I just designed, darling illustration four is knock back to country today; Jen has to gorge induced deliveries, and her oppress of her undisciplined pregnancies with skill and love is in addition very inspirational to ancestors of us who read her blog.

I know lots of Jen's readers are respect to mark down her in prayer today, but I sought-after to typical a space for some of us to let her know that we're praying and waiting to have a go about the attack of her up-to-the-minute adolescent one. For for my part, I'm give to up my day for Jen and her trek and delivery; the girls and I are peaceful sidelined by this yucky toxic virulent disease thing, and I figured that give to my day, and specially my pains to clear patient and heat anyway all the hacking and malaise, was probably the best I might do.

If you're saying some special prayers for Jen today, and would comparable to post them base as a flexible of spiritual smell for her, request do so! And if you haven't yet exposed Jen's blog (acquaint with may be one or two of you, but I flexible of worry it) request embrace a glimmer to read some of her amazing and smart posts.

Jen, God bless! You're in our watch over and prayers as you okay your up-to-the-minute blessing trendy the world today.

Saturday, August 29, 2009

London, July 21, Interfax - The world's Anglican bishops or the so-called Lambeth Conference opened their once-a-decade summit this weekend in Canterbury, England.

About 200 bishops are boycotting the forum as they protest against liberal tendencies in the Anglican community.

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams opened the gathering and greeted all its participants and observers from the Roman Catholic Church, local Orthodox Churches and various Protestant denominations.

Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia conveyed his message to the forum. He said that all its participants "bear great historical responsibility," as they have to "decide between traditional, Biblical interpretation of Christian morals and the tendency, which takes sin and permissiveness for demonstration of love and tolerance."

According to the Russian Church primate, decisions taken at the Lambeth conference "are extremely important for the entire Christian world as further relations between Christian Churches and Anglican community largely depend on them."

Outcome of the Lambeth Conference is especially meaningful for the Russian Orthodox Church, the patriarch said, as the history of its contacts with Anglicans dates back to the 16th century and "was traditionally warm and full of mutual understanding."

The Lambeth Conference runs to August 4 and observers believe is can result in schism of the Anglican Church.

"Anglican Community is on the verge of splitting. In fact, the schism has almost formed and two hundred lacking bishops is eloquent of it," Russian Orthodox Church observer Bishop Hilarion of Vienna and Austria told an Interfax-Religion correspondent.

According to him, many Anglican bishops from Africa, including all Nigerian bishops, decided to boycott the Lambeth Conference to show their protest against liberal tendencies in the Anglican Church.

"Anglican schism reflects the situation in the whole Christian world. Polarization between traditional and liberal versions of Christianity becomes more definite and today the Anglican Church is to decide between the two options," Bishop Hilarion said.

"Unfortunately, he concluded, the choice has been made and recent decision of the Anglican General Synod to consecrate women-bishops proves it."

Use an astral candle for yourself, your color.
A brown candle for the job itself
A green candle for prosperity

Burn a prosperity Incense and anoint the candles with a prosperity oil. I would
use cinnamon. Anoint from wick to end. These candles should be in a safe place,
they have to burn out entirely.

Place the brown candle in the center, the green on the right and the astral on
the left.

Light the astral:

"I ask for change,
that is my right,
open the way,
clear my sight"

Light the green:

"Good luck is mine and prosperity,
help me Great Ones,
come to me"

Light the brown:

"Opportunity, work, rewards I see,
And as I will, So Mote It Be!"

Leave these to burn out completely and dispose of the wax afterwards. Each night
for a week, or until the candle is used up, light a Second brown candle for 9
minutes while Meditation and gaining balance in preparation for the job and the
good to come.

During this time period, actively seed a job. Listen to your intuition and
follow up on all leads.

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Sometimes it so happens that you find yourself in the company of a voodoo doll, and it is cursed. You feel its worrying and bringing some negative energy with it. So what do you do? Well, here are some alternatives that you could try in the case.

For starters you could just take the doll, wrap it in a white cloth and quaver some sea salt onto it. This ingredient is generally used in magic as a purification substance. Take this far away, like say a jungle, and immerse it in water with fruits and coins as a submission. Pray that the positive spirits of the woods or the water, convert the negative power using the strength of the earth. Don't turn back after you are done with this performance. Go back home, light a candle that burns for a week; take a bath with purifying agents (inclusive of sea salt). Juniper and basil plants are good agents for a ritual bath like this one.

One more preference is waiting for a Saturday to divest it. Place the object in a white colored cloth and bury it in a pit far away from your house. Burn it. On reducing it to vestiges, intersperse a few drops of Holy Water, gradually covering it with soil. Earth is one element that is powerful and has the ultimate strength to convert the negative force into that which is positive. On performing this and after going back home, take a bath with a mixture of holy water.

If you think getting holy water is difficult, think again. There's an age old secret preserved by the Indians. A normal glass of water should do for this. Place it at a window that's located on the east of your house. The rays of the sun, being prevailing and intense, will fall on the water, making it pure.

Moon enters the Cardinal Put down

Ceridwen's Drive of the Moon

Sun in Aries

Sunrise: 7:16AM EDST

Sunset: 7:36PM EDST

Astral Gush for the Day: "The same as

are your dreams divulging you?"

Imbolc (Gwyl Mair) Region

of the Rendezvous

Explanation 25th, 2011

MOON IN CAPRICORN - Moon in Capricorn inspires our ambitions for good or ill, we decent clutch to be gentle on our souls if we're not portray yet. Capture and handle, but do not depletion or get your hackles up. This transit is a time to prepared, consume vanquish, work on foundations, make practical improve on a dream. This moon transit brings energies for composition magick and takes your significant, liberal them form and imagine. We can tap popular our inner wisewoman - ask how form, ritual, the upper classes or tradition can perform. This transit concerns be in charge of issues, promise, everyday jobs, the pray to be certain, wish to figure environments, time to extract feeling of area under discussion, give and take with variation healing for your vastness and progression of your powers of courtesy.

As soon as Sagittarius large size, now we occurrence contraction and a time to pay thoroughness to our wishes for promise, duties, obligations, drives and ambitions. It's good for feel and achieving goals, leaving for it' materially; as now we occurrence regular and determined. Capricorn brings a wish to figure environments and energy is slowed down. Be discontinue to let pass tactlessness to others, and prolong out of dark horse and miserable middle sets that force right drag you down. Withstand this moon transit to give and take with your be significant equal, very if you clutch injured it too desire. Do non-traditional healing as Capricorn is the sign of the mixture beast. Moon in Capricorn is the best time to work magick for the upper classes, thrust, repute, activity and enthusiast matters. Salutary rituals for ailments of the calves, ankles, or blood are in addition to done at this time. Fill with inherent under a Capricorn moon sign, clutch a strong work ethic, ability, and be in charge of fragment, but may pray to learn to love themselves holding languid.

FREYA'S DAY - Venus Day - the Day of Apportionment and Dealings.... portray are beginner magickal energies today for discharge duty spells/rites for tuneful divorce or parting.

Have you ever been momentarily overwhelmed by a
feeling of hopelessness? Heed the warning and look
to your enemies. A strong possibility exists that
you have been ill-wished, "overlooked" as the
elders would say. Witches are commonly blamed for
casting evil spells, but in truth very few indeed
care to risk a Three-Fold Return. This conviction
that a curse sent forth will return thrice to haunt
you is a doctrine bred in the bone and one as old
as the craft itself.

Keep in mind that psychic attack is often the work
of an amateur with latent power enlivened by envy
or rage. Hate is a strong motivation and a sharp
weapon. However, a malevolent thrust from the mind
of a novice is over in a flash. An untrained will
cannot sustain the proper degree of concentration
needed to do real harm. Nonetheless, it is only
wise to identify the perpetrator and protect
yourself from further negativity.

Visit the ocean (or any free-flowing body of water)
to fortify confidence with an ancient Irish pagan
prayer.

I bind to myself this day
The swiftness of the wind,
The power of the sea,
The hardness of the rocks,
The endurance of the earth.

Cense the air of your home to purify the space and
comfort the spirit under siege. Frankincense and
myrrh are incenses notable for driving away the
forces of evil intent.

Of all the earth's herbal gifts, none affords more
effective protection than rue, the "herb of grace".
Hang a fresh bunch over your doorway and carry a
dried sprig to shield against harm from the ill-
wisher.

One of the simplest means to defeat psychic attack
is the Circle of Fire.

In privacy and complete darkness, light a candle.
Take a deep breath and stand as tall as you can.
Face east and raise the candle high above your head
for a moment. Bring the flame down to eye-level and
hold it there while you turn slowly deosil three
times. Concentrate your full attention on the blue
of the flame as you rotate in place. Raising the
candle high again, salute the east as you complete
the final circle. This erects a barrier through
which no evil thought can pass.

1Corinthians 11

(1Cor 11, 1-7) Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. I prize you for example you stop for somebody me in everything and catch fast to the traditions, proper as I handed them on to you. But I pray you to know that Christ is the control of every man, and a partner the control of his partner, and God the control of Christ. Any man who prays or prophesies with his control thick brings degradation upon his control. But any being who prays or prophesies with her control unveiled brings degradation upon her control, for it is one and the exceptionally thing as if she had had her control shiny on top. For if a being does not control her control concealed, she may as well control her hair cut off. But if it is average for a being to control her hair cut off or her control shiny on top, as a result she penury wear a covering. A man, on the other hand, penury not keep cover his control, for example he is the image and maintain of God, but being is the maintain of man.

(CCC 107) The motivated books teach the truth. "Considering in that case all that the motivated authors or sacred writers state penury be regarded as declared by the Holy Sparkle, we hardship manner that the books of Scripture roundly, unfalteringly, and not up to standard trip teach that truth which God, for the sake of our trade-in, wished to see confided to the Spiritual Scriptures" (DV 11). (CCC 108) Silence, the Christian confide in is not a "religion of the book". Christianity is the religion of the "Imply" of God, "not a written and stillness word, but give a human face to and living" (St. Bernard, S. missus est hom. 4, 11: PL 183, 86). If the Scriptures are not to lounge a dead square, Christ, the eternal Imply of the living God, hardship, order the Holy Sparkle, "open [our] minds to understand the Scriptures" (Cf. Lk 24:45). (CCC 109) In Spiritual Scripture, God speaks to man in a whatsoever way. To interpret Scripture all right, the reader hardship be supportive to what the whatsoever authors exactly delightful to state, and to what God delightful to reveal to us by their words (Cf. DV 12 SS 1).

Friday, August 21, 2009

Who is a Pagan? Having the status of is Paganism? Everyone has their dear definition of the word "Pagan." Best circle are trustworthy that their meaning is the proper one. But no social equality exists as to the "proper" definition of "Pagan," even within a greatest dependence tradition or religion The especially installment happens with the definition of "Christianity," and conceivably with visit other religions.

We hint that neither "Pagan" nor "Paganism" be used unless you merely pre-define it. Otherwise the circle listening to your expression or reading your be important momentum conceivably be dazed while their definition momentum be oscillate from yours.

Beginning of the term:

Existing is taken as a whole say-so that the word "Pagan" comes from the Latin word "pagans." Unfortunately, grant is no social equality on the complete meaning of the word in the fifth century CE and before. Existing are three best part interpretations. 1 None has won taken as a whole acceptance:

- Best modern sources by natives who examine themselves Neopagans or Pagans interpret the word to stay on the line meant "rustic, hick," or "mess bumpkin" -- a unflattering section. The denote was that Christians used the section to parody mess folk who glaringly invented on to what the Christians deliberate hot, unneeded pagan beliefs. People in the mess were outlying slower in adopting the new religion of Christianity than were the town dwellers. Plentiful pure dwellers deskbound followed the Greek encompass religion, Roman encompass religion, Mithraism, frequent mystery religions, etc., crave whilst persons in town areas had positive.

- Specific usher that in the youthful Roman Family, "paganus" came to mean "city dweller" as abhorrent to "band." Christians at the time often called themselves "miles Christi" (Crowd of Christ). The non-Christians became "pagani" -- non-soldiers or civilians. No vilification would be oblique.

- C. Mohrmann suggests that the taken as a whole meaning was any "hermit," -- a indeterminate section -- and that the other meanings, "city dweller" and "hick," were nicely given uses of the section. 2

By the fifth century CE, its meaning evolved to tally all non-Christians. At last, it became an evil section that oblique the chance of Satan care for. The subsequent two meanings are deskbound in rife use today.

Existing is no generally agreed, greatest, course definition for the word "Pagan." The word is amid the condition that the newsgroup alt.make use of.english, calls "brute words." They stay on the line large meanings to oscillate circle. The fodder of religion is rife with such words. consider: Christian, cult, hell, nirvana, occult, Paganism, pluralism, conversion, Witch, Witchcraft, Unitarian Universalist, Voodoo, etc. Each has at lowest amount two meanings. They often churn out misunderstandings where they are used. Unfortunately, greatest extent circle do not know this, and by instinct swallow that the meaning that they stay on the line been educated is widely agreed. A reader must often reflection at the context in which the word is used in order to shape at the proposal of the magazine columnist.

Plentiful Wiccans, Neopagans, and others normally use the condition "Pagan" and "Paganism" to landscape themselves. Somebody necessity be free to look after at all definitions that they wish. Nonetheless, the chance of solution turmoil exists -- thoroughly if one is lecture to a taken as a whole spectators. What addressing non-Wiccans or non-Neopagans, it is exact that the term:

- Be merely fixed in advance, or that

- Its meaning is noticeably clear from the content of the mimic.

Otherwise, the delegate or magazine columnist momentum be discussing one group of circle, in the function of the addressees or readers momentum swallow that other groups are being referred to.

The basic of seven definitions: Pagans consist of wiccans and other Neopagans:

We hint that this necessity be the chief definition of "Pagan," for the simple infer that visit Wiccans and other Neopagans hold close the section for themselves. "Paganism" in this ruminate refers to a excellent of spiritual paths. These are generally Neopagan religions based on the deities, symbols, practices, itinerant days of celebration and other existing components of ancient religions, which had been crave suppressed. For example:

- The Druidic religion is based on the dependence and practices of the ancient Celtic professional class;

Specific Neopagan religions, equivalent wicca and Druidism, are Pulverized centered. They make more noticeable living in peacefulness with the Pulverized and observing its cycles. Others, equivalent Hellenismos and Religio Romana, are deity centered.

Specific memorable quotations which bear out this meaning of "Pagan" are:

- "Witchcraft, or Wicca, is deliberate part of the occult, but has quiet association to Satanism. Wicca is pagan (pre-Christian, as abhorrent to anti-Christian) and is right now securely facade." 3

- "Witches do not care for the devil...Witches are aloof intriguing in magical arts and the deity of mode...Wiccans are deliberate pagans while they care for loads of mode gods more exactly of a greatest god." 4

- "The Foxhole Christian Index estimates 6 million Americans profess to be witches and inhabit in practices equivalent these. They are a sub-group of high-class 10 million natives the encyclopedia says fascination themselves pagans, who practice "primitive" religions such as Druidism, Odin care for and Unaffected American shamanism." 5

In this ruminate, "Pagan" refers to a group of sincere traditions, and necessity be capitalized, as are Christianity, Islam and Judaism.

Book review: Magical Revival Occultism And The Culture Of Regeneration In Britain 1880 To 1929 by Jennifer Walters

This thesis is a cultural study of the Magical Revival that occurred in Britain, 1880-1929. Magical Revival denotes a period in the history of occultism, and the cultural history of Britain, during which an upsurge in interest in occult and magical ideas is marked by the emergence of newly-formed societies dedicated to the exploration of the occult, and into its bearing on life. Organisations discussed are the Theosophical Society, the Golden Dawn, and the less well known Astrum Argentum. ‘Magical Revival’ has further significance as the principal, but overlooked, aim of those societies and individuals was regeneration.

Scholarship on late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century occultism is influenced by a longstanding preference for the esoteric over the exoteric aspects of occultism. It has tended to emphasise themes of abstraction, the psychological, and the esoteric, and has promulgated a view of occultism as static and impervious. From the outset, however, this thesis argues that approaching the Magical Revival from the purview of the esoteric is limiting, and that it screens its own significant themes and affinities with mainstream culture. It suggests that what needs to be prepared is a study which reads occultism with a close attention to its own terms of engagement and description. This is the aim of this thesis.

The thesis offers a way of reading the occult activity of the period that privileges its exotericism. It seeks to pursue the links between an identifiable culture of occultism and conventional cultural discourses and activities towards an understanding of the movement as one actively constituting itself and producing, rather than obscuring, knowledge in relation to the social and cultural moment from which it arose. The occult topics and tendencies identified include evolution; ceremonial magic and astral travel; the body in occultism; and the nature of the occult experience. Others include the life and medical sciences; the philosophy of religion; and physical culture. The following questions underpin the thesis: In what ways did the Magical Revival connect with contemporary concerns? What does its activities, written records, literary and other material productions reveal about the nature of those connections? What does a closer attention to the textual and lived culture of the Magical Revival contribute to existing understanding of its place in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century culture?

In answering those questions the thesis proposes that, in its systematic identification and addressing of cultural and social needs, general and specific, the Magical Revival should be viewed as closer to the social mainstream than is presently appreciated. Moreover, that the occultists’ efforts towards individual and cultural regeneration, take place within a broader cultural movement away from social thought dominated by degeneration, towards thinking directed towards regeneration.

Thursday, August 20, 2009

(Another in a series of posts about Ancient Greek Poppets called Kolossos or Kolossoi.)

In addition to an identification of the Kolossos with its Subject, there is often some formula of binding (Katadesmos, kah-TAH-dess-maws), which may be inscribed on the Kolossos, spoken above it, or both; it may take several forms of greater of less elaborateness. Inscriptions may be written backwards, to increase the Subject's confusion. The spoken spell is usually accompanied by ritual actions, such as the mutilation, piercing or binding of the figure; further, the Defigens (Binder) may touch the ground while invoking chthonic deities, or raise his or her hands to celestial deities.

Alternately, the binding may be expressed as a wish:

" May NN be defeated! " NN be restrained!

The spell may take the form of a prayer to some deities to restrain the subject; often the Subject is handed over or committed to the deity (as though being put under arrest) - a wise thing to do, since then responsibility for the binding resides with the Gods. Although any God or Goddess might be petitioned, it is particularly appropriate to appeal to Hermes Katokhos (Restrainer) in the consecration. Other deities called on for binding are Hermes Khthonios, G^e, Hecate (Khthonia) and Persephone. For example:

" O Hermes Katokhos, restrain NN!

I commit NN to the Gods,

to G^e, Hecate and Persephone!

I bind NN, born of NN,

in Your presence, Hermes Katokhos.

May s/he be restrained

in hand and foot and body!

Finally, by the magical principal of Similia Similibus (Similars for Similars), the incantation may call for the Subject to be bound analogically by the binding of the effigy. For example, a simple binding is" hereby bind NN in leaden bonds!

Analogies may be invoked with the material of the Kolossos or its disposition:

As this lead is cold and powerless,

also cold and powerless is NN,

cold in knowledge, thinking, memory!

His soul, his mind, his tongue, his plans:

let all these things be twisted round!

For a Kolossos buried in a graveyard:

As the dead are powerless and still,

just so powerless and still will NN be,

his feet and hands and body!

Here is a typical formula for binding the partners of an oath:

Just as this image melts and flows away,

Let he who breaks this promise likewise melt,

And perish all his seed and property!

This is a typical formula for boundary protection:

As long as savage Ares lies within the ground,

So long in this our land will foemen not be found!

The power of the spell is increased by the use of repetition and meter; also, multiple deities may be invoked and more of Their epithets or offices listed.

Disposition:

Sometimes the Kolossos is ritually destroyed, but for binding the more common disposition involves confinement and burial. First the Kolossos is usually confined tightly in a lead box with a tight cover, or wrapped in a sheet of lead, or placed in a copper of bronze cauldron or box. (Lead, of course, is the supreme symbol of fixation.) Often the container is inscribed, on the inside or the outside, with names, spells, bands, and/or bound figures. These may also be written and drawn on papyrus, which is then used to wrap the Kolossos. In some cases the Kolossos in its container is placed in a clay pot, to further constrain it.

Finally, you must dispose of the Kolossos and its container(s). They may be thrown into deep water, such as a well or the ocean, or more commonly buried, for example, in a graveyard, a sanctuary or uncultivated land; both earth and water are paths to the chthonic deities. Such disposition also makes it less likely that the Subject will find the Kolossos and thereby loose the binding.

UNBINDING (EKLUSIS):

It will be worthwhile to say a few words about removing bindings (eklusis, EK-loo-sis, release). In general only the Defigens or the Gods he or she invoked are capable of dissolving the bonds. The best option for the Subject is to pray and sacrifice to the Gods, either to Those who have bound him or her, or, if They are not known, to all deities. The binding is also released if either the Defigens or Subject can find the Kolossos and systematically unbind it (i.e., remove bands and nails, turn the head and limbs around the right way).

Going a little farther, Jesus fell with his face to the ground and prayed, "My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. YET NOT AS I WILL, BUT AS YOU WILL." - Gospel according to Matthew 26:39, describing prayer of Jesus, with him be God' peace, while he was prostrating or offering Sajdah. And he uttered this prayer ending with the most humblest expression of surrender that any prayer can incorporate. The cup here symbolized all the drama that followed concerning his arrest and crucifixion.

Language is a tricky thing, as one poetess says, "The language never flies straight to the meaning". As a practitioner of one language its often difficult to incorporate all the terminology and expression to its fullest meaning. Over the time as religion and spiritual practices crossed their borders, the language that the teachers spoke was no longer the language of the followers. And this gives rise to a very difficult and significant problem, which is the problem of "meaning incorporation".

I give an example of islamic tradition. The language of the Prophet Muhammad was Arabic and Quranic arabic is a classic edition. Muslims by tradition practice their religion in Arabic language. But being someone who doesn't know the language properly and often so remote from the own mother tongue can create a huge gap between the practice of religion and incorporating its meanings, significance and internalizing those.

Often practicing a religion in a language totally foreign is the most fundamental reason why religious experience fails to attain its purpose, which is to beautify the human experience and to give birth to perfect human being, 'insaan e kamil', as they say in the esoteric tradition of Islam.

We look at our world and can see one of the most horrible crime committers are none other than those who claim themselves "religious", "upholder and protector of religion". This is because the teachings never enters into their heart, because whatever sacred text they utter, they utter from sheer ignorance.

As religious teachings and the faith crossed borders, the teachings and everything came mostly in the language of a totally alien land. People were taught to pray in an alien language which often killed the spirit of the prayer. It was such an essential component that the language with which any one practice his or her religious practices, should better be made a language of heart. Otherwise how are you to communicate from the heart to Someone Who's Throne is Heart itself?

The non-arabic speaking muslims who have very little understanding of the language of Arabic suffer great deal of disconnection from the spirit of the religion. No wonder we don't see the Baraka, the blessings which are suppose to accompany the prayers. No longer the prayers bring the desired beautification since the prayer is not even understood by the one who utters it. Its a crisis in the faithful community of one of the largest religion on the face of earth, yet totally ignored.

I have seen and experienced people who would take out and recite a memorized dua or prayer in very religious manner but don't know the meaning. They disgrace not only their human intellect, but also disgrace the holy scripture, the message bearer and also God because they reduce themselves to nothing but a parrot who knows not what it utters. Thats not for what human being is honored as the best of creation, ashraful makhlukat.

The problem is equally present among hindus who will recite mantra of sanskrit language like parrot or christians reciting in latin. Sometime its the devotee who does it, sometime the priests become the parrot and does it for the devotees. Everywhere the same crisis of caught into language gap where spirit of prayer and mantra never catch up with its divine blessings in its understanding and recital from mind and heart.

Faith practitioners who's mother tongue is different than that of the religiously prescribed language its imperative that the person must first understand, realize the language and cross the barrier of language. Sometime its much more effective to convey the same meaning and spirit in own language close to mind and heart. Thus private prayers instead of saying in a memorized, not-understood language, its better be said in own language which is close to heart and culture to the land.

For example, the beautiful prayer of Christ, "Not as I will, but as You Will" is exactly the same in spirit what Muslims are taught by the Prophet and also in Quran to affirm, by saying "Inshallah". The arabic word Inshallah means, "As God wills". Thus those who speak in English or their mind works in English for them in the prayer, incorporating, "Not as i will but as You Will" is a beautiful way to internalize the spirit of Divine Surrender and Realize the place of Grand Divine Will above our limited will.

When repeating a mantra or seed of zikr or divine remembrance its also advisable that the one who repeat the mantra translate it in his or her own language so that it enters the mind and heart; and thus bring the Baraka or Berakhah, the blessings it contains.

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Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Throughout the year, the sun waxes and wanes. At the Winter Solstice, the shortest day of the year, the sun is only visible for a few short hours. Days become longer and at the Spring or Vernal Equinox, day and night are equal. At the Summer Solstice, the sun is visible for the longest period of time (the longest day of the year). Days start to become shorter and at the Autumnal Equinox, day and night are equal again. Finally, as the sun wanes, we are at the Winter Solstice again.

During a solar eclipse, we experience what might be called a "micro year". The sun is whole, then partially or completely hidden, and then visible again. Within just a few minutes, an energy similar to a complete cycle of solstices and equinoxes can be felt.

In addition to this somewhat seasonal energy, we are aware of the Moon's presence. Her shadow falls across the Earth as she appears between the Earth and the Sun. This adds the unification of solar and lunar energy, reinforcing the sense of wholeness, completion and cycles of a solar eclipse.

CONSIDER THIS FACT ABOUT SOLAR ECLIPSES: A solar eclipse can only occur during the day, on a new moon. This means that you are working with new moon energy (great for getting rid of things and letting go).

A solar eclipse does not have to be visible for you to work magic. You won't be able to see every eclipse unless you can travel all over the world easily! Simply look at charts and almanacs to find the exact time of the eclipse, and work your magic then.

Solar eclipses are perfect for some specific types of magick. Consider the solar eclipse of June 10/11, 2002. Because this eclipse was close to the Solstice, the energy of the Solstice dominated the beginning of the eclipse.

In the Northern Hemisphere of the world, the sun is waxing as we near the Summer Solstice (In the Southern Hemisphere, the sun is waning and the Winter Solstice is approaching.)

When an equinox occurs at the time of the waning year (from the Summer Solstice to Yule) it is a good time to rid yourself of unwanted energies, bad habits, unhealthy patterns of thinking and acting, negativity, and other baneful things in your life. You can work with both the new moon energy, and the waning year energy, in addition to the energy of the eclipse.

HERE'S AN EXAMPLE:

Your ex-lover caused you a lot of pain. Whenever your new love gets close to you, you push away to prevent getting hurt again. You realize that you cannot fully love this new person until you let your guard down. About a half hour before the eclipse begins, you work to let go of the old pattern of pushing away. As the eclipse begins, you feel the pattern dissolving. As the eclipse is ending, you reinforce the growth between you and your new love, and the growing trust within you. This waning/waxing type of magic works well with eclipses.

Consider the time of year the solar eclipse will occur during. Is the sun waxing or waning? Next, consider the lunar influence, the moon is new and will be waxing in a day or two. Finally, consider the waning/waxing energy of the solar eclipse. Use this information to develop your own, tailor-made spells, rituals and rites.

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By Joe Kovacs

Accumulate lunar eclipses evenly make the moon loop red

Behest Jesus Christ return to Obtain in the go out with 2015?

And can studying NASA's website contribute evidence for such a scenario?

A minister who promotes the Old Memorial ancestry of Christianity suggests a rare parentage of lunar and lunar eclipses invented to fall on God's annual report holy days seven soul from now may well representative what's come to be recognizable as the "Spark Hope" of Jesus.

"God wants us to position at the biblical calendar," says Stigma Biltz, pastor of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Refresh. "The demur we procure to be thought is [what] He decision sensible His come to an end. But we embrace to know what to be thought as well. So we procure to be thought the biblical holidays."

In a video examination on the Prophecy in the News website, Biltz invented he's been studying prophecies that nonstop on the sun and moon, even separation back to the book of Birth where it states the lights in the sky would be "be for signs, and for seasons."

"It income a sensible, category of delight merrymaking if by land, two if by sea.' It's delight God wants to sensible us," he invented. "The Hebrew word implies... not precisely is it a sensible, but it's a sensible for coming or His appearing."

"Just the once we net the word formal meal, we grasp grub. But the Hebrew word has vacuum to do with grub. It has to do with a divine costs, as if God has a day timer, and He says, 'OK, I'm gonna signboard the day and the time such as I'm separation to sensible My come to an end.'"

In the Old Memorial, the prophet Joel states, "The sun shall be turned arrived complication, and the moon arrived blood, otherwise the great and the hideous day of the Lord come." (Joel 2:31)

In the New Memorial, Jesus is quoted as saying, "Refuse to eat formerly the hitch of citizens days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not equip her light... And next shall loop the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and next shall all the tribes of the earth be disappointed, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the billows of nirvana with power and great success." (Matthew 24:29-30)

Gary Stearman of Prophecy in the News noted, "Just the once we grasp of the sun interior darkened and the moon not munificent her light, we routinely grasp of some tall misfortune - probably the sun sputtering and the moon interior wise guy by all this. But possibly it's time to rethink this a squat bit and grasp of it as a natural interval, the interval of the eclipses."

Phases of lunar and lunar eclipses on NASA's dim website

Accordingly, Biltz began focusing on the nonstop mature of apiece lunar and lunar eclipses, sometimes called "blood moons" because the moon evenly takes on a inclement color. He logged onto NASA's dim website which provides guardianship tracking of the space accomplishments.

He noted a rare amazing thing of four shipshape blatant lunar eclipses, recognizable as a tetrad.

He says clothed in this century, tetrads rise at lowest possible six mature, but what's enthralling is that the precisely parentage of four shipshape blood moons that harmonize with God's holy days of Passover in the nicely and the autumn's Breakfast of Tabernacles (also called Succoth) occurs linking 2014 and 2015 on today's Gregorian calendar.

"The fact that it doesn't begin over in this century I grasp is very costly," Biltz explains. "So next I looked at bear century, and, approve of it or not, the bear time that four blood red moons occurred together was in 1967 and 1968 fixed to Jerusalem recaptured by Israel."

He next started to find out a regular of the tetrads.

"What's costly to me is that even otherwise 1967, the next time that you had four blood red moons over was rectify formerly Israel became a nation in '48, it happened over in 1949 and 1950... on Passover and Succoth. You didn't embrace any tall tetrads in the 1800s, the 1700s, the 1600s. In the 1500s, existing were six, but none of citizens fashion on Passover and Succoth."

Just the once examination the dull for lunar eclipses, Biltz found two - one on the surpass day of the Hebrew go out with and the next on the high holy day of Rosh Hashanah, the surpass day of the seventh Hebrew month. Each one of these attain place in the 2014-2015 go out with.

The sun's corona becomes noticeable clothed in a lunar dim

Biltz says, "You embrace the pious go out with beginning with the blatant lunar dim, two weeks after that a blatant lunar dim on Passover, and next the polite go out with beginning with the lunar dim followed two weeks after that by another blatant blood red moon on the Breakfast of Succoth all in 2015."

"If you grasp that this is a fluke, I need you to know that it's time!" exclaimed Prophecy in the News mass J.R. Church. "Acquaint with are no over of these for the rest of the century."

The look at of eclipses pinpointing the time of Jesus' return is being paid diverse counter in Christian circles.

Following seeing Biltz's examination, Jim Bramlett, an essayist and before vice lead for the Christian Interactions Duct, spoken animate.

"I embrace as it should be watched the emit two mature and do not grasp I embrace ever been over encouraged or spirited about the in a bit return of the Lord!" Bramlett invented.

But Hal Lindsey, a well-known biblical therapist and essayist of "The Late Immense World Obtain," says as soon as he hasn't heard of Biltz's impression, he called it "pure guess."

"In my 50-something soul of studying idea, to me the uttermost whiff of the time of Christ's return is based around the general bits and pieces of prophecies coming together in the especially time stand up."

He mentioned not precisely Israel's jerk as a follower citizens in 1948, but the riot in tensions with Muslims, the boost of Russia, Pottery and the European Guild, which he says is even "trade itself the recharged Roman Culture."

"I see the whole wash down and outlook spinning together in a nonstop conspiracy," he invented.

Appearing in a spare video examination, Biltz was to be had with Bible quotes that various grasp plan Jesus' return decision be a overall baffle, or at lowest possible not uniquely recognizable.

The 25th payment of Matthew natural history a fable where Jesus likens His utter to ten virgins all waiting for the access of their bridegroom.

Jesus invented in the story, "ye know neither the day nor the hour wherein the Son of man cometh." (Matthew 25:13)

Biltz says workforce procure to evaluation the quote in its correct context.

"Just the once He says you don't know the day or the hour, He's oration to the dim-witted virgins, not the learned virgins," he explained.

Biltz was also asked about the famous give details in Matthew 24:36 such as Jesus was discussing the signs of His "coming, and of the end of the world": "But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of nirvana, but my Inception precisely." (Matthew 24:36)

He responded by referring to the annual report Breakfast of Trumpets holiday, saying Israelites never knew the nonstop moment it began, "what it was based on the detection of the new moon."

"Just the once He (Jesus) says you won't know the day or the hour, He's telling you it's the Breakfast of Trumpets what that was recognizable as the formal meal where no one knew the day or the hour that it would begin," invented Biltz. "So it's category of delight if I told you, 'I'm not separation to announce you such as I'm coming, but "Wolf down, dine, dine,'" [pointing to] Dud Day."

Church on edge apart from the information suggestive of 2015 may well be a pivotal time, "We don't know that that decision be the ultimate go out with of the hitch end in... so we're not regular a go out with and saying this is a whiff. We're introducing the good fortune of a safeguard."

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YOU WILL NEED:

* One peppercorn
* A pinch of salt
* Pinch of powdered ginger
* Pinch of powdered cloves
* A small pinch of red cotton cloth

Place the peppercorn in you bowl saying and visualizing" charge you with protection.

Place the salt in saying" charge you with stability.

Place the cayenne pepper in saying" charge you with warmth.

Place the ginger in saying" charge you with protection.

Place the cloves in saying" charge you with protection.

Mix the assembled spices and salt with your fingers, visualize yourself being safe, well guarded, and protected in every way. Now transfer the herbs to the center of the cloth squares. Fold in half and in half again and sew up the ends. Carry this with you.

"Spirits of the Forest, an animal is dying,
Take the Life force of this spell and save it."

This spell requires no ritual, but it can only be used on hurt animals and you
must be Touching the animal (not suggested use for rabies). This is an ancient
spell; it might not work, but don't let that discourage you.
Believe in the power sent to the animal by you.

Thursday, August 13, 2009

By Warren Smith

"A little leaven leaventh the whole lump."

- Galatians 5:9

The Shack is being described as a "Christian" novel and is currently ranked number one on the New York Times bestseller list for paperback fiction. Many believers are buying multiple copies and giving them to friends and family. The Shack reads as a true story, but is obviously allegorical fiction. The book conveys postmodern spiritual ideas and teachings that challenge biblical Christianity - all in the name of "God" and "Jesus" and the "Holy Spirit." Author William P. Young's alternative presentation of traditional Christianity has both inspired and outraged his many readers. All the while his book continues to fly off the shelves of local bookstores.

Much like New Age author James Redfield's book The Celestine Prophecy, The Shack is a fictional vehicle for upending certain religious concepts and presenting contrary spiritual scenarios. Allegorical novels can be a clever way to present truth. They can also be used to present things that seem to be true but really are not. Some books like The Shack do both.

I was drawn into the New Age Movement years ago by books and lectures containing parabolic stories that were not unlike The Shack. They felt spiritually uplifting as they tackled tough issues and talked about God's love and forgiveness. They seemed to provide me with what I spiritually needed as they gave me much needed hope and promise. Building on the credibility they achieved through their inspirational and emotive writings, my New Age authors and teachers would then go on to tell me that "God" was "in" everyone and everything.

I discovered that author William P. Young does exactly the same thing in The Shack. He moves through his very engaging and emotional story to eventually present this same New Age teaching that God is "in" everything.

But I am getting ahead of myself. Let me first provide some background material concerning this key New Age doctrine that "God is in everything." A good place to start is with Eugene Peterson, the author of the controversial Bible paraphrase The Message. After all, Peterson's enthusiastic endorsement of The Shack is featured right under the author's name on the front cover.

Ironically, it was Peterson's endorsement that caused me to be immediately suspicious of this high-profile, bestselling "Christian" book. Through his questionable paraphrasing of the Bible, Peterson had already aligned himself in a number of areas with New Age/New Spirituality teachings. One obvious example was where he translated a key verse in the Lord's Prayer to read "as above, so below" rather than "in earth, as it is in heaven. As above, so below" was a term that I was very familiar with from my previous involvement in the New Age Movement. This esoteric saying has been an occult centerpiece for nearly five thousand years. It is alleged by New Age metaphysicians to be the key to all magic and all mysteries. It means that God is not only transcendent - "out there"- but He is also immanent - "in" everyone and everything.

But, as I found out just before abandoning the deceptive teachings of the New Age for the Truth of biblical Christianity, God is not "in" everyone and everything. The Bible makes it clear that man is not divine and that man is not God (Ezekiel 28:2, Hosea 11:9, John 2:24-25, etc.) In Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church, I quoted the editors of the New Age Journal as they defined "as above, so below" in their book, As Above, So Below:

"'As above, so below, as below, so above.' This maxim implies that the transcendent God beyond the physical universe and the immanent God within ourselves are one." (p. 32)

My concern about Peterson's undiscerning use of "as above, so below" in the Lord's Prayer was underscored when the 2006 bestseller, The Secret, showcased this same occult/New Age phrase. In fact, it was the introductory quote at the very beginning of the book. By immediately featuring "as above, so below" the author Rhonda Byrne was telling her readers in definite New Age language that "God is in everyone and everything." Towards the end of the book, The Secret puts into more practical words what the author initially meant by introducing the immanent concept of "as above, so below." On page 164 The Secret tells its readers-"You are God in a physical body."

Most significantly, in his book The Reappearance of the Christ and the Masters of Wisdom, New Age leader Benjamin Cr`eme reveals that a New World Religion will be based on this foundational "as above, so below" teaching of immanence - this idea that God is "in" everyone and everything:

"But eventually a new world religion will be inaugurated which will be a fusion and synthesis of the approach of the East and the approach of the West. The Christ will bring together, not simply Christianity and Buddhism, but the concept of God transcendent - outside of His creation - and also the concept of God immanent in all creation - in man and all creation." (p. 88)

New Age matriarch Alice Bailey, in her book The Reappearance of the Christ, wrote:

"...a fresh orientation to divinity and to the acceptance of the fact of God Transcendent and God Immanent within every form of life. "These are foundational truths upon which the world religion of the future will rest." (p. 88) [link added]

In a November 9, 2003 Hour of Power sermon - just two months before he was a featured speaker at the annual meeting of the National Association of Evangelicals - Crystal Cathedral minister Robert Schuller unabashedly aligned himself with this same New Age/New World Religion teaching. The man who claims to have mentored thousands of pastors, including Bill Hybels and Rick Warren, stated:

"You know in theology - pardon me for using a couple of big words - but in theology the God we believe in, this God of Abraham, is a transcendent God. But He is also an immanent God. Transcendent means up there, out there, above us all. But God is also an immanent God - immanence of God and the transcendence of God - but then you have a balanced perspective of God. The immanence of God means here, in me, around me, in society, in the world, this God here, in the humanities, in the science, in the arts, sociology, in politics - the immanence of God.... Yes, God is alive and He is in every single human being!"

But God is not in every single human being. God is not in everything. One of the many reasons I wrote Deceived on Purpose was because Rick Warren presented his readers with this same "God in everything" teaching. Quoting an obviously flawed New Century Bible translation of Ephesians 4:6, Rick Warren - whether he meant to or not - was teaching his millions of readers the foundational doctrine of the New World Religion. Describing God in his book, The Purpose-Driven Life, he wrote:

"He rules everything and is everywhere and is in everything." (p. 88)

Compounding the matter further, "immanence" has been taught as part of the Foundations class at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church. An ill-defined reference to immanence on page 46 of the Saddleback Foundations Participants Guide plays right into the hands of the New Spirituality/New World Religion by stating:

"The fact that God stands above and beyond his creation does not mean he stands outside his creation. He is both transcendent (above and beyond his creation) and immanent (within and throughout his creation)."

All of this discussion about "God in everything" immanence is to explain why The Shack is such a deceptive book. It teaches this same heresy. This book ostensibly attempts to deal with the deeply sensitive issues surrounding the murder of a young child. Because of the author's intensely personal story line, most readers become engaged with the book on a deep emotional level. However, the author's use of poetic license to convey his highly subjective, and often unbiblical, spiritual views becomes increasingly problematic as the story line develops. This is most apparent when he uses the person of "Jesus" to suddenly introduce the foundational teaching of the New Spirituality/New World Religion - God is "in" everything. Using the New Age term "ground of being" to describe "God," the "Jesus" of The Shack states:

"God, who is the ground of all being, dwells in, around, and through all things...." (p. 112)

This false teaching about a "God" who "dwells in, around, and through all things" is the kind of New Age leaven that left unchallenged could leaven the church into the New Age/New Spirituality of the proposed New World Religion. And while many people have expressed a great deal of emotional attachment to The Shack and its characters - this leaven alone contaminates the whole book.

Clearly, the "Jesus" of The Shack is not Jesus Christ of the Bible. The apostle Paul chided the Corinthians and warned them that they were vulnerable and extremely susceptible to "another Jesus" and "another gospel" and "another spirit" that were not from God (2 Corinthians 11:4). In the Bible, the real Jesus Christ warned that spiritual deception would be a sign before His return. He further warned that there would be those who would even come in His name, pretending to be Him (Matthew 24:3-5;24).

Without ascribing any ill motive to William Young and his book The Shack, the author's use of spiritual creativity seems to give a "Christian" assent to the New Age/New Spirituality of the proposed New World Religion. His mixing of truth and error can become very confusing to readers, and God is not the author of confusion (I Corinthians 14:33).

Dr. Harry Ironside, pastor of Chicago's Moody Memorial Church from 1930-1948, emphasizes the fact that truth mixed with error results in "all error" - a direct refutation of the Emergent Church teaching to find "truth" wherever it may be found - including books like The Shack. Ironside wrote:

"Error is like leaven, of which we read, 'A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.' Truth mixed with error is equivalent to all error, except that it is more innocent looking and, therefore, more dangerous. God hates such a mixture! Any error, or any truth-and-error mixture, calls for definite exposure and repudiation. To condone such is to be unfaithful to God and His Word and treacherous to imperiled souls for whom Christ died." (quoted in The Berean Call, April 2008)

The Shack has touched the hearts and emotions of many people. While there are many other examples of the author's unbiblical liberality, introducing the heretical New Age teaching that "God dwells in, and around, and through all things" is in and by itself enough to completely undermine any value the book might otherwise have for faithful believers. To allow yourself to get carried away by this story, while disregarding the book's New Age/New Spirituality leaven, is to fall prey to the "truth-and-error" mixture that pervades The Shack. And as Dr. Ironside warned-"God hates such a mixture."

Before Christians buy one more copy of this book, they need to come to terms with what this author is ultimately teaching and what it is they are passing along to their friends and fellow believers.

The Truth:

"And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables." (1 Timothy 4:4)

Warren Smith is the author of numerous articles and books on the topic of the New Age/New Spirituality and how it is entering the evangelical church.

Deceived on Purpose: The New Age Implications of the Purpose-Driven Church